On 2006-03-05, Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> wrote:>> our moderator wrote:>>[I don't know anyone who thinks that C's million levels of precedences>>are a good idea...>> Bear in mind, though, that attempts to reduce the number of levels have> often been found equally unsatisfactory. Pascal tried, and the result was> counterintuitive cases where certain parentheses, which everyone agrees> ought to be redundant, are in fact necessary.

Could you give examples here? Are you refering to the experimental
notations for exponentiation 2^(-1) in some dialects ?